fardel

Example Sentences

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To torment myself with the detail of the noisome contents of the fardel will but make it stick the closer, first to my imagination and then to my unwilling will.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

I find I want you to take up the fardel of public life; not to be a pessimistic complainer, standing aside with your hands in your pockets, but a citizen.

From The Day of His Youth by Brown, Alice

He, who in the old days had shouldered with a smile responsibilities which would have set his elders sweating with apprehension, found the light weight of Gramarye a fardel to make him stagger.

From Anthony Lyveden by Yates, Dornford

Your baby-days flow'd in a much-troubled channel; I see you, as then, in your impotent strife, A tight little bundle of wailing and flannel, Perplex'd with the newly-found fardel of Life.

From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education

I'm sore bestead, Priscilla—I have a quarrel with Myles Standish, and 't is as big a fardel as my shoulders will bear.

From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Austin, Jane G. (Jane Goodwin)